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Lack of association between IL27 gene variants and type 1 diabetes susceptibility.
Cytokine - 1 Feb 2013
Santos Aritania S, Melo Maria E, Crisóstomo Lindiane G, Fukui Rosa T, Matioli Sérgio R, Silva Maria Elizabeth R
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Recently, a new subpopulation of T cells, the Th17 subset, has been implicated in autoimmune diseases. Its development is influenced by IL-27, expressed in macrophages or dendritic cells. IL-27 blockage delays the onset of diabetes in non obese diabetes mouse, but its role in type 1 diabetes (T1D) in human has not been reported yet. The aim of this study was identify variants in the entire coding...
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